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Soprano's Schubertiade / Sampson, Middleton
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Soprano's Schubertiade / Sampson, Middleton

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Details

Composer
SCHUBERT, FRANZ
Artist
Sampson, Middleton
Format
SACD
Label
BIS
Released
May 11, 2018
Catalog #
BIS-2343
UPC
7318599923437

About

Schubert’s empathy with women is evident in his body of songs, which include songs to, by, about and for women. Devised by Carolyn Sampson and Joseph Middleton, the present recital brings us each of those possibilities and more. The playwright Helmina von Chézy wrote the text to the tender Romanze, intending it for the play Rosamunde, Princess of Cyprus to which Schubert composed incidental music. Another female author, Marianne von Willemer, wrote the two Suleika poems for Goethe, who included them (under his own name) in the collection West-östlicher Divan. And no less than seven of the other songs on the album are also associated with Goethe, and his characters Mignon (from Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre) and Gretchen (from Faust). Schubert was for a while almost obsessed with the mysterious and waif-like Mignon, making several settings of the poems associated with her. Less of an enigma but equally moving, Schubert’s Gretchen sings of awakening desire (Gretchen am Spinnrade) and laments her coming disgrace (Gretchens Bitte). Carolyn Sampson and Joseph Middleton have collaborated on several acclaimed projects for BIS, most recently with the counter-tenor Iestyn Davies as their companion. Here they close their Soprano’s Schubertiade with three settings of poems by Walter Scott, albeit in German translations. The three ‘Ellen Songs’ are from the verse-romance The Lady of the Lake from 1810, with the last one, ‘Schubert’s Ave Maria’, being one of the composer’s best-known and most loved compositions.

Tracklist 15 tracks

  1. 1 Suleika I (Was bedeutet die Bewegung), Op. 14, No. 1, D. 720 05:21
    Track
    1
    Title
    Suleika I (Was bedeutet die Bewegung), Op. 14, No. 1, D. 720
    Duration
    05:21
    Composer
    Franz Schubert
    Performer
    Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton
  2. 2 Suleika II (Ach um deine feuchten Schwingen), Op. 31, D. 717 04:17
    Track
    2
    Title
    Suleika II (Ach um deine feuchten Schwingen), Op. 31, D. 717
    Duration
    04:17
    Composer
    Franz Schubert
    Performer
    Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton
  3. 3 Rosamunde, D. 797: No. 3b. Der Vollmond strahlt auf Bergeshohn "Romanze" 03:13
    Track
    3
    Title
    Rosamunde, D. 797: No. 3b. Der Vollmond strahlt auf Bergeshohn "Romanze"
    Duration
    03:13
    Composer
    Franz Schubert
    Performer
    Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton
  4. 4 Blondel zu Marien, D. 626 03:37
    Track
    4
    Title
    Blondel zu Marien, D. 626
    Duration
    03:37
    Composer
    Franz Schubert
    Performer
    Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton
  5. 5 No. 2. Lied der Mignon (Heiß mich nicht reden) 03:36
    Track
    5
    Title
    No. 2. Lied der Mignon (Heiß mich nicht reden)
    Duration
    03:36
    Composer
    Franz Schubert
    Performer
    Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton
  6. 6 No. 4. Lied der Mignon (Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt) 03:01
    Track
    6
    Title
    No. 4. Lied der Mignon (Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt)
    Duration
    03:01
    Composer
    Franz Schubert
    Performer
    Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton
  7. 7 No. 3. Lied der Mignon (So lasst mich scheinen) 03:31
    Track
    7
    Title
    No. 3. Lied der Mignon (So lasst mich scheinen)
    Duration
    03:31
    Composer
    Franz Schubert
    Performer
    Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton
  8. 8 Mignon (Kennst du das Land?), D. 321 04:14
    Track
    8
    Title
    Mignon (Kennst du das Land?), D. 321
    Duration
    04:14
    Composer
    Franz Schubert
    Performer
    Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton
  9. 9 Gretchen am Spinnrade, Op. 2, D. 118 03:38
    Track
    9
    Title
    Gretchen am Spinnrade, Op. 2, D. 118
    Duration
    03:38
    Composer
    Franz Schubert
    Performer
    Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton
  10. 10 Gretchen im Zwinger, D. 564, "Gretchens Bitte" (completed by B. Britten) 06:47
    Track
    10
    Title
    Gretchen im Zwinger, D. 564, "Gretchens Bitte" (completed by B. Britten)
    Duration
    06:47
    Composer
    Franz Schubert
    Performer
    Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton
  11. 11 Der König in Thule, Op. 5, No. 5, D. 367 03:31
    Track
    11
    Title
    Der König in Thule, Op. 5, No. 5, D. 367
    Duration
    03:31
    Composer
    Franz Schubert
    Performer
    Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton
  12. 12 Viola, Op. 123, D. 786 13:15
    Track
    12
    Title
    Viola, Op. 123, D. 786
    Duration
    13:15
    Composer
    Franz Schubert
    Performer
    Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton
  13. 13 Ellens Gesang I (Raste, Krieger), Op. 52, No. 1, D. 837 08:15
    Track
    13
    Title
    Ellens Gesang I (Raste, Krieger), Op. 52, No. 1, D. 837
    Duration
    08:15
    Composer
    Franz Schubert
    Performer
    Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton
  14. 14 Ellens Gesang II (Jäger, ruhe von der Jagd!), Op. 52, No. 2, D. 838 03:13
    Track
    14
    Title
    Ellens Gesang II (Jäger, ruhe von der Jagd!), Op. 52, No. 2, D. 838
    Duration
    03:13
    Composer
    Franz Schubert
    Performer
    Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton
  15. 15 Ellens Gesang III (Ave Maria!), Op. 52, No. 6, D. 839, "Hymne an die Jungfrau" 06:08
    Track
    15
    Title
    Ellens Gesang III (Ave Maria!), Op. 52, No. 6, D. 839, "Hymne an die Jungfrau"
    Duration
    06:08
    Composer
    Franz Schubert
    Performer
    Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton